Eliminate “extremity” from the vocabulary

After three preseason games in which any injured Broncos player was described as having hurt his upper or lower extremity, the team will start to be more descriptive.

Starting with Thursday’s game against Arizona, the team will release whether a player has injured his arm or leg. No word on whether the team will get any more specific than that. Shoulder? Hand? Open dislocation of the knuckle on the index finger? That might all be considered “arm.”

What a pompous, officious fool this dude is. Bigger than the English language! Geez…

Don

What a pompous, officious fool this dude is. Bigger than the English language! Geez…

Dave

One can only imagine what Josh’s doctor has to do to get a straight answer out of him.

Dave

One can only imagine what Josh’s doctor has to do to get a straight answer out of him.

Marc

why? why is it pompous and arrogant? Shannahan got fined for lying about an injury to (I believe) Clinton Portis. Why does he have to tell you what the injury is, how severe and how long it will take to heal? just ’cause you want to know, doesn’t mean you should know. same goes for fans and definately for opposing teams. i have no problem with him being vague with injuries, but i do have a problem insinuating that you have a “right” to know.

Marc

why? why is it pompous and arrogant? Shannahan got fined for lying about an injury to (I believe) Clinton Portis. Why does he have to tell you what the injury is, how severe and how long it will take to heal? just ’cause you want to know, doesn’t mean you should know. same goes for fans and definately for opposing teams. i have no problem with him being vague with injuries, but i do have a problem insinuating that you have a “right” to know.

Mike

Hey Marc,
Where I come from we focus on our customers. The fans are the customer and we do have a right to know what happens to our team. It’s not about disclosing to the media, it’s about disclosing to the fans.

Mike

Hey Marc,
Where I come from we focus on our customers. The fans are the customer and we do have a right to know what happens to our team. It’s not about disclosing to the media, it’s about disclosing to the fans.

Marc

That’s apples and oranges though. Do you release information that could potentially damage your company to your customers? Not to mention the fact that the orginization shouldn’t be going out of it’s way (from an on the field perspective) to please fans. On the field, their priority should be winning games. They win games, fans will be happy and come “consume”. The marketing department can worry about making sure they have a good time while they’re there. From a strategic standpoint, I don’t want my opponent to have any information they could use against me. The Bronco fans aren’t the only ones reading the Denver Post anymore. Would I like to know how long Orton (or whoever) is going to be out? Sure. But I don’t need to know, I don’t deserve to know, and I’ll find out one way or the other when the game starts.

Marc

That’s apples and oranges though. Do you release information that could potentially damage your company to your customers? Not to mention the fact that the orginization shouldn’t be going out of it’s way (from an on the field perspective) to please fans. On the field, their priority should be winning games. They win games, fans will be happy and come “consume”. The marketing department can worry about making sure they have a good time while they’re there. From a strategic standpoint, I don’t want my opponent to have any information they could use against me. The Bronco fans aren’t the only ones reading the Denver Post anymore. Would I like to know how long Orton (or whoever) is going to be out? Sure. But I don’t need to know, I don’t deserve to know, and I’ll find out one way or the other when the game starts.

Mike Klis has been with The Denver Post since 1998, after working 13 years with the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Major League Baseball was Klis' initial passion. He started covering the Colorado Rockies after Coors Field was approved for construction in August 1990.

Nicki Jhabvala is the Sports Digital News Editor for The Denver Post. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor, and she was most recently the overnight home page editor at the New York Times. She has reported regularly on the Broncos since joining the staff.

A published author and award-winning journalist, Benjamin Hochman is a sports columnist for The Denver Post. He previously worked on the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, winners of two Pulitzer Prizes for their Hurricane Katrina coverage.